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Uneven Influence: Why Female Representation Affects Some Migration Policies But Not Others, Lauren Olsen
Uneven Influence: Why Female Representation Affects Some Migration Policies But Not Others, Lauren Olsen
Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies
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Gender, Corruption, And Culture: Evidence From The American States, Luke Bell
Gender, Corruption, And Culture: Evidence From The American States, Luke Bell
Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies
In recent years, several influential studies have reported that high levels of female representation in national legislatures seem to correspond with low levels of countrywide corruption. Scholars have expressed excitement at the prospect that simply adding women to government will “diminish the need for a painful, expensive, and politically difficult process of rooting out corruption via oversight and prosecution” (Esarey and Chirillo 2013: 364). Some governments have launched initiatives to increase the number of women in positions of public responsibility as a means of combating corrupt behavior. Peru, for example, recently created an allwomen police division in an attempt to …